Theme, Genre, Reading Strategies

Some of you may know that I used to teach Language Arts.  I am pretty sure I was born to teach it and I miss it terribly.  I love going into classrooms and catching a few seconds of reading instruction.  I love all of the posters in the rooms, the discussions, the adventures, the picking apart of each little element of the stories.  In my travels I have found some excellent resource that I want to share with you.

Beanie Baby Strategies
This site is elementary based and uses Beanie Babies to teach word attack skills and reading comprehension skills.  Posters have already been created.

Genres
This site provides genre posters, genre at a glace sheet, genre cards, genre graphs etc to use in the classroom.

Theme
This is the same site as the genre posters and it provides examples and descriptions of common literary themes.  Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link that says "Click Here for Old Theme Posters"

Happy Teaching!

Charts, Graphs, Maps, Recipes, Diagrams----For Teachers!

Most of us use Time For Kids in our classrooms but if you don't you can still access a ton of printables at http://www.timeforkids.com/ in the Teacher Resource section.  I just printed a ton of sheets that review charts, graphs, maps, recipes and diagrams to use as review and UGH... TEST PREP!!! What I like about these are they are high interest, nonfiction, quick and easy to read and they have just a few questions with each activity.

To access the different activities go here! Look on the left hand side and choose your grade level under where is says "Worksheets". Scroll until you find what you need.  Also in that column are links to some lovely graphic organizers!

Happy Teaching!

Reading Comprehension and Graphic Organizers

Here are some links to already made reading comprehension selections with questions.  Some of the other links have graphic organizers. Again these are 3rd grade level but I am pretty sure other levels are available.





Super Teacher Worksheets


NCSU.edu


Time for Kids Graphic Organizers


And some MORE!

Math Review

Here are some good daily math review books with worksheets that I have seen used in my school....

Math 4 Today

One worksheet has four or five rows and students complete one row each day and at the end of the week the entire sheet has been completed. This is a good way to review previously taught skills.


Math Minutes

Ten problems on one sheet that review different math skills.  This is more spread out and less intimidating than the Math 4 Today.


Drops in the Bucket

This worksheet is organized by skill and the review skill in labeled on the worksheet unlike the other two; however to me it looks a bit crowded.


All of these companies have "reading" review sheets as well that you can buy separately.

Math Websites!

What happens when you put a language arts teacher into a math teaching position?  A lot of googling for math "intervention" ideas and games occurs!

I found two really good websites with math activities beyond the textbook.

http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com/

This site has some great game ideas to use in the math classroom. The pages are organized by grade level and links are provided for online games too.

http://www.mathwire.com/

This site is amazing.  It provides worksheets, games, directions, literature links, websites etc for almost any math topic taught in elementary school. I found a few excellent money activities to use with 3rd grade.

What websites have you found for math and even reading?

Some websites for my fellow teachers...

So I have decided to finally expand my blog to other activities than just cooking.  While I was subbing for Kindergarten last week I noticed this list of websites in the computer lab. I have not been to them all but I know that here in OK they use Starfall a lot for reading.  These are more elementary based but hopefully some of you will find them helpful...

http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.missmaggie.org/
http://www.magicschoolbus.com/
http://www.radioaquarium.com/
http://www.gameaquarium.com/
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
http://www.aaamath.com/
http://www.funschoolkaboose.com/
http://www.aplusmath.com/
http://www.ezschool.com/
http://www.spellingcity.com/
http://www.fun4thebrain.com/
http://www.multiplication.com/
http://www.professorgarfield.org/
http://www.iknowthat.com/
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

Hope these links work and you find some of them helpful!